Worst Call Ever

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Originally Posted by MichaelVA2000

Thanks Dakota, that’s why I enforced the charged conference.

I don’t see in my OP where I appeared to brag about a “gotcha” call. It seemed pretty straight forward to me. The coach was charged with a conference. It was conference number four. By rule, on the fourth conference a different pitcher is required.

How do you not at LEAST admit that this is a gotcha call? You could have prevented it.. "Coach get back in your hole or this is a charged conference" would have done it.. that would have taken what? a half second and everyone gets to play their game happily without some ruling like that.

Maybe the coach was a jerk? Doubtless he probably was having problems with you all game or even in the past.. and you got him on this one? hmmm? Why else would he even try this that way unless there is some level of history here?

Confess and ye shall be set free.

At least admit you were getting this coach for whatever reason. Because IMO, this is very preventable and this type of call exactly falls under a "preventative umpiring" issue IMO.

In any case, at least its in the right thread.